Buck anchor



March 11 1924.

J. A. WHITTAKER March 11 1924; 4 1,4865% I J. A. WHITTAKER BUCK ANCHOR Filed March 16. 1 2 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Mar. ll, i924.

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JOHN A. WHITTAKER, OIE DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

BUCK ANCHOR.

To all whom it may cancer 1t:

Be it known that 1, JOHN A. VVHITTAKER, citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, county of Wayne, State of Michigan, have invented a certain new and useful Im provement in Buck Anchors, and declare the following to be a full, clear and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the san1e,'reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to what is known in the building trade as a buck-anchor for use in connection with door and window casings to anchor the wooden buck or frame to which the door casing trim i at tached, to a tile wall or partition.

Many experiments: have been tried with varying success to secure the wooden buck of a door or window casing to tile partition walls or the like, none of which however have proven satisfactory.

It is therefore the object of thisinvention to provide a. simple and inexpensive device adapted to be readily attached to the wooden buck for securing it to a tile or other wall and to which the usual plaster or putty coat covering the wall may be bonded upon the plaster entering the apertures and overlapping the fins provided for this purpose in the anchor-plate.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds the invention further resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed it being understood that changes may be made in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed with out departing from the spirit of the same.

In the drawings accompanying this specification and forming part thereof:

' Figure 1 is a perspective view of the anchor-plate.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal sectional view throughthe same;

Figure 3 is a perspectiveview of a modification of the device in which the apertures punched in the plate are provided on one side with projecting fins'or walls integral with its body portion.

Figure 4: is a side elevation. of the device shown in the preceding view.

Figure 5 is a perspective view of another modification in which the anchor-plate is formed of flat metal in place of the corrugated construction shown in the preceding figures.

Figure 6 is a perspective view of a door buck and tile wall with the anchor-plates attached; the tile wall being shown in the process of erection.

Figure 7 is a horizontal view of a door casing showing anchor-plates attached to the buck, the door trim and the putty coat applied to the tile and bonded to the anchor plate.

Referring now to the letters of reference placed upon the drawings:

A denotes the wooden buck of a door casing, B the tile wall, (3 a plaster or putty coat applied to the wall. D indicates a door and E the door trim. F designates the an chor-plate formed of sheet metal bent to form a right-angle that it may be secured by nails G to the buck between the latter and the abutting edge of the tile wall and also to the face of the tile wall. The anchor-plates are preferably corrugated as shown in the drawings though this form of construction is not essential.

hen corrugated a pair of plates may be readily nested together thereby insuring the right-angle portions overlapping the side surface of the wall being parallel with each other to properly receive the tile block. It also serves to avoid any chance of the &11Cll0lpl&t6S sliding laterally upon each other when th worlnnan is nailing the plates to the wood buck.

C denotes a plurality of apertures punched in the wall of the plate through which the plaster or putty coat may pass while in a plastic state that a bond may be secured between the plate and the plaster. Ifdesired these apertures may be punched so as to provide a projecting Wall C integral with the body portion, that an enlarged bonding surface may be obtained t'ior the putty coat if desired.

C are apertures in the anchor-plate for the passage of nails for securing the plates to the buck and to the tile wall, under certain conditions however it may not be necessary or desirable to nail the overlapping portions of the anchor-plate to the wall.

To provide for the ready insertion of the tile block between the projecting right-angle portions of the device the edges of the latter may be bent outwardly at a slight angle as indicated at (1". As previously suggested the anchor-plate may be flat instead of corrugated if desired though the latter construction is preferred.

Having thus described my invention what I claim is:

1. In a device of the character described, the combination of a pair of co-acting plates, each plate being bent at right-angles to its body portion, whereby when adjusted in relation to each other they may be adapted to receive and overlap the sides and edge of walls of various widths; and means for securing the plates to the buck ofa door at any point along the buck or window casing, and at any point along the abutting edge of the wall.

2. In combination wit-h the buck of a door or window casing and a connecting wall; a pair of co-acting perforated angle iron plates adapted to overlap each other and also overlap the sides and edge of a wall, and means for securing the plates to the buck at any point along the buck and to any part along the abutting edge of the wall.

3. In combination with the buck of a door or window casing and a connecting wall, a pair of co-acting angle iron plates adapted for adjustment in relation to each other, and corrugated, whereby they may be nested together to maintain their projecting ends in parallel relation to receive and overlap connecting walls of various widths; and means whereby to secure the plates to the buck at any position along the abutting edge of the wall.

4. In combination with the buck of a door or window casing and a connecting wall, a pair of co-acting perforated corrugated angle iron plates adapted to be nested together and to overlap the sides and edge of a wall, and means for securing the plates to the buck at any point along the buck and to the wall.

5. In combination wtih the buck of a door and window casing and a connecting wall; a pair of relatively adjustable corrugated angle plates nested together; perforated for the passage of nails whereby the plates may be secured to the buck at various points along the buck and at any point along the abutting edge of the wall to the wall, said plates also provided with a plurality of other perforations for the passage of a plastic putty coat for covering the wall, whereby the putty coat may be bonded to the plates. I

6. A connecting tie for a door buck or window casing and a connecting wall comprising a pair of angular shaped members,

each having an arm longer than the other,

the longer arms bein adapted to overlap and being corrugated to prevent lateral displacement of one longer arm with relation to the other and also provided with perforations to receive securing means for con' the longer arms of which are adapted to adjustably overlap and provided with perfo rations to receive sccuring means to secure the longer arms to the door buck or window casing, the shorter arms being adapted to embrace the sides of the abutting edgeof the wall and having erforations whereby to receive a putty coat to efiect a bond betweenthe tie and the putty coat.

8. A connecting tie for a door buck or window casing and a connecting wall comprising a pair of angular shaped members, one arm of each angular'member being adapted to overlap the arm of the companion angular member, the. overlapping arms having perforations to receive securing means whereby to secure the connecting tie to a door buck or window casing, the other arms of the angular members being adapted to overlap the abutting edge of the wall and perforated to receive securing devices whereby to secure the tie to thewall.

9. A connecting tie for a door buck or window casing and a connecting wall comprising a pair of angular shaped members, one arm' of each angular member being adapted to overlap the arm of the companion angular member, the overlapping arms having perforations to receive securing means whereby to secure the-connecting tie to a door buck or window casing, the other arms of the angular members being adapted to overlap the abutting edge of the wall and perforated to receive securing devices whereby to secure the tie to the wall, the said other arms having their outer ends flared outwardly.

In testimony whereof, I sign this specification in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN A. WHITTAKERQ Witnesses:

MAURICE WOLF, S. E. THOMAS. 

